Information about this scabbard

This Variation is made with straight black lacquered leather bodies with sheet brass mounts.  Both throat and tip mounts are held to the leather with two large brass rivets on each side.  The curved edges on the throat and tip mounts are exaggerated to almost a point, making it easy to separated them from the Type 4 scabbards.

The frog stud is a 15 mm domed brass stud, brazed to the right side of the throat mount within a raised reinforcement ring.  The throat edges are bent inwardly and the opening is in the shape of a rectangle, allowing the blade to be inserted in either direction.

Variation A is on the left and Variation B is on the right.  Note the differences in the frog stud.

The large tip finial, an oval domed brass cap, is brazed over the end of the tip mount body.

 Some of the examples have a small letter S stamped on the side of the finial.

The throat mounts are 66 mm long and 38 mm wide.  The tip mount is 83 mm long and 29 mm wide.  The overall length is approximately 530 mm long. 

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